This has got to be the first time a rock band promoted and sold an album performed by 100% by their own tribute band. And get this, before releasing anything by the current configuration claiming to be Queen. Don't mistake me I sure in the hell don't want to witness any QAL live albums or DVDs. As far as QEX. Martel is such a wooden performer. Great voice but I find him boring.And people claim he sounds the "closest to Freddie". I don't buy it. Here's why:

YAFF wrote::shock: This has got to be the first time a rock band promoted and sold an album performed by 100% by their own tribute band. And get this, before releasing anything by the current configuration claiming to be Queen. Don't mistake me I sure in the hell don't want to witness any QAL live albums or DVDs. As far as QEX. Martel is such a wooden performer. Great voice but I find him boring.And people claim he sounds the "closest to Freddie". I don't buy it. Here's why:

Gary Mullen has never interested me. I am not sure if I can explain why, but something that always puts me off is when someone tries to copy every move, clothes etc. To me Marc Martel is perfect. At times he really sounds like Freddie, other times not. He has his own style and by chance there is something that really hits a nerve in me. He kinda looks like a relative of Freddie without trying to.

A wooden performer? He certainly isnt as daring as Freddie was when it comes to language and clothes. But to me that is alright. I like Marc, and I like his style on stage. I actually enjoy seeing him perform the way he does it.

Yaff, I really respect you in many ways, but OMG, please don't post Gary Mullen videos on QE threads. This is the second time someone has done that and I cannot STAND GM's performances. He gives me the creeps big time!

I never could stand him..I caught videos of him on youtube parading around mimicking Freddie's mannerisms and every move before the assembling of QE and before I knew of this forum.

Please? State your opinion, lord knows everyone has one, but no more showing Mullen off here. Make him his own thread.

I positively feel the need to go rip my skin off and bleach my eyes.

ICK, now Rog, you had to quote it.

.It is my uppermost hope that even histories' genius's lost their minds as they aged. I'd hate to think that I really am an idiot. sjm

julymorning wrote:Yaff, I really respect you in many ways, but OMG, please don't post Gary Mullen videos on QE threads. This is the second time someone has done that and I cannot STAND GM's performances. He gives me the creeps big time!

I never could stand him..I caught videos of him on youtube parading around mimicking Freddie's mannerisms and every move before the assembling of QE and before I knew of this forum.

Please? State your opinion, lord knows everyone has one, but no more showing Mullen off here. Make him his own thread.

I positively feel the need to go rip my skin off and bleach my eyes.

ICK, now Rog, you had to quote it.

I'm getting a very subtle. faint, distant impression you don't like Mullen. I'm just saying a frontman doing the full Freddie is more of a tribute than just Martel pacing the stage when not sitting at the piano. He's a bore (a devout Christian singing a flamboyant gay man's music with virtually no emotion) I admit I'm a little bothered and jealous by/of Martel that he is able to sing so close to Freddie and it has made him famous. Not for anything he actually achieved mind you. As much as I can't stand Lambert's woeful attempts at singing rock I think QAL is probably closer to the spirit of Queen just not the sound. I also find it absurd that this site is promoting a product by it's own tribute band when there's tons of real Queen they could release. But I've long come to accept it that Brian & Roger as "Queen" has mostly been absurd since John left. And I believe I have a feeling I know why John has little to do with these two clowns other than cashing checks. Yes I said "clowns" but as you know I'm a great admirer of Brian for his concern for animals and his vegetarianism.

Put it another way. If I was on a cruise ship and on came a Queen tribute band I would fully expect the singer to act and try to sing like Freddie. That's what it's supposed to be about. In the past on two separate cruises I saw a Beatles tribute and an Elton John tribute. They did all the moves and costume changes. That to me makes more sense than QEX, which is just karaoke with a live band.

"I don't dislike Freddie and have said he's hands down the best singer I've ever heard." - magicshoes